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to say much. Like most of the orientals, they think in poetry, 
and consequently cannot fail to speak and act it. Their prog- 
ress in the fine arts has been limited and retarded by obvious 
circumstances ; but with proper culture, Heaven has endowed 
them with sufl&cient mental faculties for any thing. Our allotted 
course, however, compels us to leave this interesting people, and 
pay our respects to the citizens of civilized Batavia. 
